Patent · US Expired

Medical diagnostic imaging apparatus

US6424855B1 · kind B1 · utility

2Cited by

7References

17Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Mathias Blasche · Buckenhof, DE
Matthias Drobnitzky · Spardorf, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 29, 2000
Grant date	Jul 23, 2002
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 4, 2020

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B5/055
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A medical diagnostic imaging device has a support device, which, for positioning a fixable area of an examination subject to be imaged in an imaging volume of the device, is fashioned for moving the examination subject thereon in at least one moving direction, a control device for controlling the movement of the support device, a pointer device, which, for prescribing the area to be imaged, is fashioned for pointing to the area to be imaged, and an detection device, acquires the spatial position of the pointer device at least in the moving direction and which is connected to the control device for positioning the area to be imaged that is prescribed by the pointer device.

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